Ask HN: Has anyone ever set up a free conference call system?
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You can build it completely in the cloud with a service like twilio(1). This would be good to get a temporary setup going very quickly.
If you need something a little more permanent and flexible, you can easily build it yourself with asterisk(2) or freeswitch(3). If you know what you're doing, you can turn a centos server into a dial-in conference bridge in about half an hour. This will open the door to all kinds of awesome like skype bridges, web embedded soft phones and whatever custom apps you can code up. We once created a conference call where participants could drive a robot with DTMF.
(1) http://www.twilio.com/
(2) http://www.asterisk.org/
(3) http://www.freeswitch.org/
If you need something a little more permanent and flexible, you can easily build it yourself with asterisk(2) or freeswitch(3). If you know what you're doing, you can turn a centos server into a dial-in conference bridge in about half an hour. This will open the door to all kinds of awesome like skype bridges, web embedded soft phones and whatever custom apps you can code up. We once created a conference call where participants could drive a robot with DTMF.
(1) http://www.twilio.com/
(2) http://www.asterisk.org/
(3) http://www.freeswitch.org/
Thanks! Would you be interested in helping us with this project? Seems like you have a lot of experience.
Once Richard Stallman himself came to my home office and configured everything. Then he was like "free as in beer, dude. now wheres my beer?"
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If you happen to work for/be a founder of a service would you be interested in chatting about partnering?
I know this is not the typical post on HN, but was not really sure where else to turn.